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Issue with Dynamic Link and After Effects Compositions
Hello All:
I’m just starting to work with the Adobe Creative Suite 5.5, and I’m trying to use the dynamic link feature to do color grading in After Effects. I’m starting off in Premiere and then right clicking on my clips and selecting “replace with After Effects composition” from the drop down menu. That will bring up my clip in After Effects successfully and I’m able to treat the clip just fine in the program. The problem I’m having is when I go back to Premiere and switch to work on a new clip the progress I have made on any previous clips I’ve worked on is lost and replaced with the clip I’m editing in AE. I am making sure to save and close out of the composition each time before I start working on a new clip, and multiple linked compostions appear in my bin in Premiere, so why won’t my clips remain the way they were when I finished and saved them?
I’m sure it’s a simple mistake I’m making, I’m just not sure what I’m doing wrong. Please help, thank you.
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This may or may not be the culprit, but it is critical that you only have 1 premiere project and 1 AE project linked together. To accomplish this, follow this workflow:
With your first dynamic link of a new project, do what you are already doing: right click and choose “replace with After Effects comp” This will open AE, and you can begin to work on your clip. While you are still working in this open editing session, you may send as many new clips over to AE by doing the same process – right click, replace with AE comp. This should always open new comps in AE with your clips and the changes should be reflected in Premiere.
However, once you close AE and/or Premiere, when you restart your editing, do NOT click on replace with AE comp on any new clip you want to work on. First, right click on a previous dynamically linked clip (doesn’t matter which one…) and click on Edit Original. This will open up AE with your previous project (The only one linked with Premiere, if you have done this right) and it essentiall tels Premiere – this is the AE project I want to send new dynamic links to. Now, you can right click on new clips and hit Replace with New AE comp, and it will “talk” to the correct AE project.
Does that make sense? This will keep the dynamic links talking to each other…
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[Danny Nieder] “This may or may not be the culprit, but it is critical that you only have 1 premiere project and 1 AE project linked together. To accomplish this, follow this workflow:”
This is not true in CS6. I have a separate project for each clip I send from PrP to AE. As someone who does lots of dynamic linking and a beta tester for CS6 I know this to be true.
The rest of your info is correct in CS6.
Adobe on the subject..
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/premierepro/cs/using/WS318FB3AB-E1D1-40f7-9FD9-BB04A6F6A465.html
Trouble shooting DL in CS6
https://www.digitalrebellion.com/blog/posts/adobe_dynamic_link_troubleshooting.html
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